avi / errors / not playing grrrrrrrrrr

[her122]

So i download some .avi's and try to view them with Windows Media Player, but all I get is sound. I load Virtual dub and can see the movie and can extract the sound, I tried to save it to avi and it took forever and then when I did get it to play the audio was terrible and the picture was VERY choppy. But I look at the fps (of the original avi) and it's like 14,000. Now I don't know what to do, I can't get it to run through TMPG, I keep getting errors.

What do I do with the avi??? How else can I turn it into an mpg?? OR should I trash it because of the fps?

I have installed all the programs I have seen suggested and read what ever I could find and I am still lost.

BUT; I did make a vcd yesterday using the long method of extracting the audio and then using TMPG and then Nero to burn it. So I am getting somewhere.

[vcd4me]

I didn't know there was a long way and a short way ?
What is the short way and how much shorter is it supposed to be?
I've really never heard of a short way of doing this, if you could sav me some time I'd love it!

I use the guide you kind of explained at the bottom of your post.
Using virtual dub to extract the sound should take around 5 minutes and then converting with tmpgenc should take anywhere from 2-6 hrs depending on computer speed.

don't know if I'm understanding you right you said you saved the sound as avi in virtual dub? You also said fps is 14,000 it should be somewhere between 20 (horrible) and 29.97(NTSC)vc standard

[bugster]

I have seen the 'audio but no video' prob in WMP before. Usually it means you dont have the right video codec installed. Ensure you have divx 4 and 5 codecs installed as these are the most likley candidates for downloaded videos. Often the audio on these is MP3 which is why WMP can play the audio on them. Avi format is just a container (Audio Video Interleave) and you must have the relevant codecs installed.

This may also explain why Vdub gives such a strange FPS figure, if it doesnt have the right codec installed it probably cant see/calculate the FPS correctly!